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Wife, Mother Grandmother, Patriot and a Treeper, who loves God, Family, County and President DJT. I will never back down, bend, break, surrender or give in.

[Alana Mastrangelo-Wrask @ARmastrangelo]

I bought this @GE_Appliances fridge in March 2020. Six and a half years later, it’s dead. The repair quote is $2,350, which means it's time to buy a new fridge.

Meanwhile, the white fridge in my garage that looks like it's from WWII is still running strong.

For the price of one brand-new GE fridge, I could buy 30 used white fridges on Facebook Marketplace that will all still be alive after I'm gone.

What happened to us as a nation?

[GracieLouDotCom @WeimeeLady]

@ARmastrangelo @GE_Appliances We also bought a GE Cafe fridge in 2020. The ice maker stopped working, we called a repair man. He came today. It will be $800+ to put in a new computer board. I went to get ice cream tonight, and it's basically turned to soup. 6 years seems to be the magic number! What a rip off

[Tock @yvan_theriault]

Ne vous disputez pas avec les gens de plus de 60 ans. Vraiment, évitez.

Ce n’est pas seulement une question d’âge : c’est une véritable leçon de survie.

Ils ont grandi sans Google, sans livraison de repas à domicile, sans podcasts de développement personnel et sans bouton « Annuler ». Quand quelque chose tombait en panne, ils attrapaient du ruban adhésif, du WD-40, un marteau et affichaient un air tellement déterminé que même l’appareil en panne finissait par douter de lui-même.

Enfants, ils savaient exactement dans quelle humeur était leur mère rien qu’au bruit qu’elle faisait en posant plus ou moins violemment la poêle en fonte sur la cuisinière.

C’était la génération des enfants qui rentraient seuls de l’école, avec la clé de la maison autour du cou et des consignes très claires : réchauffer le déjeuner et surtout ne pas mettre le feu à la cuisine. À dix ans, ils étaient capables d’aller à vélo jusqu’à l’épicerie du coin, d’acheter une bouteille de lait pour la voisine, de nourrir le chien et d’avoir encore le temps de jouer dehors avec les copains jusqu’à la tombée de la nuit.

Leurs genoux étaient en permanence couverts d’égratignures, de bleus et de traces de désinfectant. Leur trousse de premiers secours universelle ? Un petit rinçage rapide sous le tuyau d’arrosage et un pansement. Tant qu’aucun os ne dépassait, tout allait bien.

Ils buvaient directement au tuyau d’arrosage, mangeaient du pain de mie couvert de beurre et de sucre, partageaient une seule bouteille de Coca à cinq et, mystérieusement, survivaient malgré cette absence totale de désinfection.

C’est la génération qui sait rembobiner une cassette audio avec un crayon. Celle qui connaît le suspense d’attendre toute une semaine qu’un film passe à la télévision, parce que si on le ratait… c’était fini. Elle se souvient des téléphones à cadran, des énormes annuaires en papier dans lesquels on cherchait le numéro d’une famille, et de l’excitation provoquée par l’arrivée de la télévision en couleur.

Ils ont connu les lignes téléphoniques partagées, les rubans de machines à écrire, les premiers téléphones portables gros comme des briques, puis les téléphones à clapet. Et aujourd’hui, il leur arrive peut-être de vous envoyer accidentellement un message vocal de sept minutes dont les six premières sont essentiellement constituées de leur respiration et de :

« Allô ? Tu m’entends ? »

Et ne vous avisez surtout pas de rire.

Parce que sans GPS, ces gens étaient capables de traverser la moitié du pays avec pour seuls guides une vieille carte routière en papier, une glacière remplie de sandwichs et cette conviction profonde que :

« La sortie ne devrait plus être très loin… »

Ce sont les maîtres absolus de la débrouille domestique. Ils savent recoudre, resserrer, recoller et réparer à peu près n’importe quoi. Et quelque part dans leur placard, ils possèdent un fameux « sac à sacs » rempli de sacs en plastique, probablement plus vieux que la moitié des gadgets électroniques que vous possédez.

Alors, laissez tranquilles les gens de plus de 60 ans.

Ils ont connu le monde avant Internet, puis ils ont appris à vivre dans celui d’après. Et pendant tout ce temps, ils ne se sont pas contentés de survivre : ils se sont débrouillés, adaptés et ont continué à avancer.

Et si vous fouillez leurs poches aujourd’hui, vous y trouverez probablement un bonbon à la menthe, un mouchoir soigneusement plié, un comprimé contre la douleur « au cas où »… et surtout une sagesse acquise à la dure qu’aucun App Store ne pourra jamais vous permettre de télécharger.

[Balázs Orbán @BalazsOrban_HU]

A warning from Hungary to the American conservative movement.

I spent five years as Political Director to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. I learned what it takes to build a successful conservative movement. Today I am learning another lesson: what happens when conservatives lose power.

When conservatives govern, they must never allow power and institutions to distance them from the people who elected them. Our strength comes from ordinary people believing that we are on their side: fighting for their families, jobs, security, communities and country.

And this is the warning from Hungary: if conservatives lose power, do not assume you will simply spend four years in opposition. Your opponents may use their victory to make sure you never come back.

What we are witnessing in Hungary is the construction of an authoritarian liberal system through a political and economic purge. The new government is not simply reversing conservative policies. It is dismantling the political, intellectual, media and economic infrastructure that made conservative government possible.

They are going after donors, business leaders, media personalities and intellectuals who supported or worked with the conservative government. The logic is simple: treat everyone who helped the conservative side as if they must be guilty of something, then turn the machinery of the state on them to find something that can be used against them. Authorities become instruments to intimidate and punish the people and networks that could help conservatives return.

The economic purge follows the same logic. Nationalizations, threats to private property and political intervention send a clear message: if you supported the wrong side, your business, property and livelihood may no longer be safe. The goal is to make supporting conservatives personally and economically dangerous.

And all this follows an election campaign in which almost everything was promised to everyone. But promises eventually collide with reality. Prices, wages, investment, energy and living standards cannot be fixed by communication. When the promised better life fails to arrive, a government has two choices: offer something better, or make sure there is no credible alternative.

That is the lesson from Hungary.

Stay on the side of the people while you govern and never take their trust for granted. And if you lose, reorganize immediately, stand by your people and find your way back to the voters as quickly as possible.

Because an authoritarian liberal system does not merely want conservatives to lose an election. It wants to make sure that, when people realize they were promised one thing and given another, they have no real alternative left to choose. And if this happens, ordinary citizens and ultimately the country itself pay a very high price.

[GracieLouDotCom @WeimeeLady]

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[Lynne C. @LynneShasta40]

I hope everyone will read Dave Ramsey’s comments about going cashless. It’s a two minute read. No one has explained it better. He brings up several situations I'd never considered.

I took this picture of my receipt in my beautiful town Kerrville Texas. I support this and I can see how this could affect our kids by having gaps in work ethic, financial literacy, and community connection.

Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:
A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.
* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.
* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.
* No more money in birthday cards.
* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.
* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.
* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.
* No more charity collections.
* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.
* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.
What a cashless society does guarantee:
* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.
* Every transaction you make is recorded.
* All your movements & actions are traceable.
* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.
* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.
* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.
* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas.
Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

Copy and paste to your page if you like! Posted from a friend…. I agree 💯

[🌻Music 🎶🎻🎷 @khalythai]

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[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Does it make sense now?

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

Bannon: I was talking to people today, and they were saying, “Oh, well, Fauci has a pardon.” I don’t care! He’s got 20 other people who directly report to him who are guilty of crimes. Where is their indictment? Where is their grand jury? Where is the action? Screw the pardon. His lawyer doesn’t think the pardon works, or else he wouldn’t have him plead the Fifth. We need to play ball. We need to play hardball.

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

Bannon: Where are the lawsuits against Pfizer!? Where are the lawsuits against Big Media!? Where are the lawsuits against the individual hosts that pushed this narrative day after day after day after day. What about the social media platforms? Tech bros just hanging around gonna do this, gonna do that. LET'S GET EM ALL! ROUND EM UP! THEY ALL GOT TO GO TO PRISON!

[🔥🇺🇸 KC 🇺🇸🔥 @KCPayTreeIt]

Exactly. 💯 That’s why they tried to alienate, shame, and vilify anyone who refused to comply with their authoritarian measures!

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

This is just horrific… My God… they all need to pay dearly.

Dr. Fauci sowed the fingers and scalps of aborted babies into the backs of research mice, which the scalps grew fine baby hair.

https://t.co/ehYZnztgYQ

[GrrrGraphics 🇺🇸- Ben & Tina Garrison Cartoons @GrrrGraphics]

Fauci not only killed hundreds of thousands of people,
he killed beagle puppies by torturing them to death with their heads trapped in sand fly cages as they were eaten alive.
They also cut the dog's vocal cords so they didn't have to heard them cry.
Arrest this Tyrant Fauci
Democrats will defend this......of course

[Anthony @AnthonyG0528]

The man that told you to trust the science was torturing puppies. Rot in hell Fauci.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: An angry Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says Dr. Fauci needs to be ARRESTED and LOCKED UP before he even leaves Capitol Hill today

"He should be LOCKED UP before he leaves this BUILDING today, put in prison and put on trial! We lost 20,000-30,000 in Alabama ALONE, and I hope every damn one of them sues Fauci! If we can't put him in prison, put him in court for the rest of his life where he can listen to the death he caused!"

"He KlLLED PEOPLE!"

[Brandie with a 🐝 @BrandieWithABee]

This is the only acceptable way to speak to that demon.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Dr. Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment, categorically REFUSING to answer any and all questions from the US Senate

This piece of trash needs to be in a prison cell.

The fact he's still free is a DISGRACE.

[Robert 🇺🇸 @ziegler2u]

Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Dr Fauci and Mr. Science

The Fauci files reveal not just a sociopathic narcissist, but also a pathological schizophrenic.

For years, Fauci was assuring the public of Covid narratives that he either knew were untrue, or knew little about.

He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead.

From the virus’s origins and effects of the lockdowns, to the efficacy of the mRNA vaccinations to the always changing 0/1/2 masks wearing protocols, Fauci used his massive government agency, and sycophantic media, to promote his always fluid narratives by punishing enemies and rewarding friends—on the basis of their loyalty to Dr. “I represent science”.

He seemed to be obsessed with firing White House Covid advisor Scott Atlas, and demonizing Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff—for the crimes of questioning the Fauci party line.

These critics were not radical “let it rip” herd immunologists as the Fauci camp caricatured them, but circumspect, cost-to-benefit doctors and savvy health policy analysts.

Their views, if embraced, might have avoided a multibillion-dollar global shutdown that wrecked economies—especially derailing the booming 4th quarter 2019 Trump economy—increased the death toll, destroyed millions of livelihoods, harmed perhaps permanently the education of millions U.S. children, and was hardly based on the “science”.

And what exactly were the so-called extremist views of Atlas, Bhattacharya, and others?

Healthy children were not at great risk from Covid—but keeping them isolated drained away key resources from the elderly and sick who certainly were vulnerable.

And the nationwide school closures had profound negative effects on children and teens as did the lockdowns on the general population.

Substance and familial abuse soared, small businesses were ruined, and children’s formative educational years were lost.

24/7 mask wearing was neither practical nor necessary as opposed to their beneficial use by health care workers in close proximities.

The experimental mRNA vaccinations may have initially saved lives, but they were not, as billed by Fauci and the pharmaceutical companies, lasting protection from either infectiousness or being infected.

And certainly the repeated booster regimens for some could pose serious health risks.

Herd immunity was not some crank idea, as the Fauci school libeled these experts, but, along with the initial vaccinations, were time-tested medical realities that would mitigate the toxicity of the pandemic.

We have seen a lot of obscene hoaxes recently that changed national events: the loony Jussie Smollett caper; the phony “Steele dossier”; the “51 intelligence authorities” and the Russian-produced Hunter Biden laptop con; and the media fabricated effigy of Joe Biden as “fit as a fiddle”.

But Fauci’s effort to attribute the virus to a bat or pangolin publicly, while privately accepting from his own consultants that it likely was birthed in the Wuhan lab’s gain of function research—which he had helped to support via Peter Daszak—and the policies that resulted from that initial lie, proved literally for thousands a matter of life and death.